Founded in 2002 by a team of experts in media-on-demand and video-over-IP technology, Eksper Tech is a private company headquartered in the center of London with offices in US and Asia. Its revolutionary broadcast and media-on-demand software solutions and platforms are used by Telco’s and other broadband service providers to deliver broadcast-quality video and audio over IP networks.

With a completely open architecture and the ability to deliver high-speed, high-quality video streams to the desktop or TV at affordable price points, Eksper Tech has lead a new era in video-enabling technology. For the first time, organizations have a complete solution that fully integrates all major video streaming applications--video-on-demand, multicast, distributed content caching, and video archiving / indexing -- with the ability to scale to any size deployment.

With broadband access penetration expected to reach new heights in the coming years, many analysts predict entertainment gateway services will be the new entertainment paradigm in the home. To this point, leading industry analyst, Forrester, expects entertainment gateways to reach 50 million Europe households and US by 2006. As the market shifts from an a la carte digital set-top box to a fully scalable entertainment system, Eksper Tech is achieving a leadership position in this emerging market.

Eksper Tech’s innovative solutions enable the deployment of rich-media services with advanced functions such as:
· Automatic failover to quickly and transparently restore services should an interruption occur — without disrupting the end-user experience
· Load balancing to maintain peak performance at all times by distributing the service load across multiple servers, clusters of servers, or network segments
· Integrated system management to support 24/7 operations and on-line maintenance
· Carrier-class scalability to dynamically support increasing numbers of users and services
· Real-time tracking of performance, usage, and transactions to deliver accurate billing information
Eksper Tech’s services are easy to deploy, expand and maintain, and make use of off-the-shelf hardware to lower the total cost of deployment. The software is optimized to support more users and media files with less servers and personnel, and makes use of distributed multi-server clusters to significantly reduce the amount of media storage required.

The IP Broadcast Solution is an end-to-end software infrastructure for delivering and managing broadcast services over IP networks. It offers real-time encoding, unicast and multicast transmissions, local and remote archival, a web-based remote management console, variable channel inputs and support for industry standard codecs. Above all, it provides broadcasters with the means to deliver secure high-performance services on a large scale

The Media-On-Demand Solution is an end-to-end software infrastructure for the delivery, distribution and management of media-on-demand services over IP networks. It delivers audio and video with exceptional broadcast quality and low latency playback, resulting in a dynamic viewing experience that exceeds the quality of conventional broadcasting. It offers concurrent delivery of all major ISO and industry standard digital media formats, scheduled content distribution, load balancing, automatic failover, and integrated remote management.

The Streaming Media Platform is a fully integrated foundation on top of which all Eksper Tech solutions operate. The platform offers broadband optimized delivery, distribution, monitoring, tracking and transaction management for live and pre-recorded media — with carrier-class performance, reliability and scalability. It’s an ideal platform on which service providers can tightly integrate their value-added services in record time by taking advantage of the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Streaming Service Extensions available.

Eksper Tech’s IP broadcast and media-on-demand software solutions enable the delivery, distribution and management of high-quality video and audio to hundreds of thousands of users over IP networks.

Our patented suite of core technologies, integrated streaming service components and advanced applications provide the industry’s first end-to-end streaming media platform offering:
· Fully distributed, highly scalable software architecture optimized for media-on-demand and IP broadcasting solutions
· Multi-service delivery, distribution and management applications for live and on-demand IP streaming
· High-performance streaming file system
· Multi-server clustering for unprecedented scalability
· Intelligent real-time distributed load balancing
· Automatic failover for high availability services
· Full-screen broadcast-quality 30-frame-per-second video and CD-quality audio
· Server and client-based quality-of-service monitoring
· Authentication, transaction and asset management
· User tracking, operational and billing support
· Accessibility via PCs, TVs with set-top-boxes, wireless PDAs and Internet appliances
· CODEC independence

Eksper Tech’s innovative software platform is based on a distributed and open architecture for which nine patents have been filed. This architecture effectively removes the limitations imposed by existing solutions’ architectures and delivers levels of performance, reliability, and scalability that were once thought impossible to reach.

Eksper Tech solutions are easy to deploy, expand, and maintain. The platform is optimized to support more users and media files with fewer servers, storage, and personnel. It also makes use of multi-server distributed clusters that leverage and share off-the-shelf hardware to lower the total cost of the solution to levels never achieved before.

Eksper Tech solutions support data rates from 28kbps to 170Mbps with the guarantee that every frame will be delivered in time. Conventional streaming media technologies utilize a best effort, transaction-based, client-server model for the delivery of narrowband data streams at data rates from 28kbps to 300kbps. By contrast, Eksper Tech’s patented streaming engine with its zero-degradation policy works in conjunction with the end-user client to guarantee the delivery of full-screen 30-frame-per-second video and CD-quality audio assuring the optimal viewing experience. Media formats supported for the delivery of narrowband and broadband streams include MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, ASF, DAT, High-Definition TV, and various third-party CODECs.